NSW. c. 1940. Portrait of a group of RAAF trainees being drilled on a parade ground. Sixth from ...

Accession Number P02356.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

NSW. c. 1940. Portrait of a group of RAAF trainees being drilled on a parade ground. Sixth from right is 402547 Airman (later Pilot Officer) Thomas Frederick Wong See, the first Australian-born Chinese to serve in the RAAF. Note the summer uniforms the men are wearing and the .303 rifles they have sloped on their left shoulders.

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